Comments on: Mike Leake skips minors, named Reds fifth starterhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/04/02/mike-leake-skips-minors-named-reds-fifth-starter/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:42:35 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: George Borowhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/04/02/mike-leake-skips-minors-named-reds-fifth-starter/comment-page-1/#comment-39074
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:49:17 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39074Mike has five great pitches. He doesn’t rely on just a fastball to get him through a game like Chapman. He won’t be having back “issues” every other week. He puts the ball into play and leaves it up to the infield to make the outs. This is what the Reds need. He went 16-1 last year in the hardest College league. He does not get intimidated by the batter no matter who they are. He’ll do fine.
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Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:10:51 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39073Wow, you sure know a lot about baseball if you can’t recognize one of those names. Did you just start watching last year?
]]>By: sanhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/04/02/mike-leake-skips-minors-named-reds-fifth-starter/comment-page-1/#comment-39072
Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:22:54 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39072A couple of people left off your list of players not to play in the minors….
Sandy Koufax
Bob Feller
Mike Morgan had a good career. Jim Abbott was not bad. The major leagues and Cooperstown has tons of players that hardly played in the minors. I doubt that short stint was the deciding factor in their career. Heck, Tim Lincecum spent all of a month in the minors on top of his short time the year he was drafted (which Leake missed).
On top of all of that, I am sure Leake will be send down at some point. It a stop gap measure while Volquez is rehabbing and/or Wood and Chapmen get some time in the minors.
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Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:16:16 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39071I’m not by any means a Dusty Baker apologist, but Kerry Wood’s first surgery came during Jim Riggleman’s tenure. Perhaps we should be worried about Strasburg.
“mingus feat”
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:40:06 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39070Baker will ride this horse till his arm falls off. Like he did in Chicago with Zambrano. Not good.
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:38:17 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39069Another promising pitcher that Dusty Baker can ruin by over-using. Among the list of other promising pitchers ruined or being ruined by Dusty Baker:
Mark Prior
Kerry Wood
Edinson Volquez
Aaron Harang
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:40:22 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39068Speaking of ESPN New York…
Rob Parker from ESPNNewYork.com, must have been one of the first people to log on to see my article about Robinson Cano being the Most Important Yankee considering that his Friday article bears nearly the same title and utilizes many of the points I made last Wednesday in this article entitled “The Most Important Yankee”. Let’s see how quickly we see articles about Brett Gardner’s situational hitting and AJ Burnett’s control being important to keeping the bullpen fresh coming out of ESPNNewYork as well.
Check mine out at http://yankeesgameday.blogspot.com/2010/03/most-important-yankee.html
And his at http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/columns/story?id=5051296
I give him props for have fancy stats and a better research department than I do.
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:17:08 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39067Heh. Burt Hooton, the best of the lot, is now the pitching coach at Round Rock.
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:11:59 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39066Looks like the reds are buying time for chapman. This is not good for leake and 18 innings of spring ball isn’t enough of a guage to throw him into the rotation. Long relief would have been a better fit (at least early) while allowing wood some starts.
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:08:15 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39065A little bit of minor league season is the proper rite of passage – just check the record books. The Nats are doing it right with Strasburg; the Reds are making a big mistake with Leake. Dreifort was a bust with the Dodgers, really. Big Ben McDonald was the same with the Orioles. Patience will pay bigger dividends.
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:38:21 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39064^ As a whole you’re right theirs no hall of famers there. But “officially” how’ve you never heard of Mike Morgan, Darren Driefort or at least Burt Hootan(who also threw a no-no in has career) though…
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:54:07 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39063Well all I can say is that if you gave Jim Abbott a right hand I would officially have never heard of any of these guys – great company to keep.
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:37:15 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39062The pitchers who have skipped the minors since the draft was instated aren’t exactly the most inspiring group:
Spring 2009 Mike Leake
Spring 1995 Ariel Prieto
Spring 1993 Darren Dreifort
Spring 1988 Jim Abbott
Spring 1978 Tim Conroy
Spring 1978 Mike Morgan
Spring 1973 David Clyde
Spring 1973 Eddie Bane
Winter 1973 Dick Ruthven
Spring 1971 Pete Broberg
Spring 1971 Burt Hooton
Spring 1969 Steve Dunning
Spring 1967 Mike Adamson
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:06:32 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39061Great! Now get Chapman up around June and another bat or two & lets see what happens!
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Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:58:57 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39060+1,000,000

and GimmeSomeSteel gets +999,999 for being second.

Great work fellas

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Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:21:04 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39059The Reds being noted throughout their recent history for their development and handling of starting pitchers, Cooperstown should get Leake’s bust ready ASAP.
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Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:42:17 +0000http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=5030#comment-39058because if there’s a manager in baseball you want to give a pitcher who skipped the minors, it’s Dusty Baker.
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